The album was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Conor Oberst) and named for a Sam Shepard poem. In a statement, Elson described writing and recording the emotional album after a lengthy hiatus from music. “I wrote maybe six songs but I'm very instinctual as a person and I knew that there was one puzzle piece missing that I hadn't tapped into the deepest part myself,” she said. “I knew I needed to pull that out if I was going to make the record I needed to make. At the end of the writing the album I felt liberated. I felt free. I felt like me.”